Saturday, October 24, 2009











A LEADING scientist has warned a new species of "humanzee," created from breeding apes with humans, could become a reality unless the government acts to stop scientists experimenting.

In an interview with The Scotsman, Dr Calum MacKellar, director of research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, warned the controversial draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill did not prevent human sperm being inseminated into animals.
He said if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born.

He said scientists could possibly try to develop the new species to fill the demand for organ donors.

Leading scientists say there is no reason why the two species could not breed, although they question why anyone would want to try such a technique.

Other hybrid species already created include crossed tigers and lions and sheep and goats.

Dr MacKellar said he feared the consequences if scientists made a concerted effort to cross humans with chimpanzees. He said: "Nobody knows what they would get if they tried hard enough. The insemination of animals with human sperm should be prohibited.

"The Human Fertilisation and Embryo Bill prohibits the placement of animal sperm into a woman The reverse is not prohibited. It's not even mentioned. This should not be the case."

He said if the process was not banned, scientists would be "very likely" to try it, and it would be likely humans and chimps could successfully reproduce.

"If you put human sperm into a frog it would probably create an embryo, but it probably wouldn't go very far," he said.

"But if you do it with a non-human primate it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it could be born alive."

Dr MacKellar said the resulting creature could raise ethical dilemmas, such as whether it would be treated as human or animal, and what rights it would have.

"If it was never able to be self-aware or self-conscious it would probably be considered an animal," he said. "However, if there was a possibility of humanzees developing a conscience, you have a far more difficult dilemma on your hands."

He said fascination would be enough of a motive for scientists to try crossing the two species.

But he also said there was a small chance of scientists using the method to "humanise" organs for transplant into humans. "There's a desperate need for organs. One of the solutions that has been looked at is using animal organs, but because there's a very serious risk of rejection using animal organs in humans they are already trying to humanise these organs.

"If they could create these humanzees who are substantially human but are not considered as humans in law , we could have a large provision of organs."

He wrote to the Department of Health to ask that the gap in the draft legislation be addressed.

The department confirmed that the bill "does not cover the artificial insemination of an animal with human sperm".

It said: "Owing to the significant differences between human and animal genomes, they are incompatible and the development of a foetus or progeny is impossible.

"Therefore such activity would have no rational scientific justification, as there would be no measurable outcome."

Dr MacKellar disagrees. He said: "The chromosomal difference between a goat and a sheep is greater than between humans and chimpanzees."

Professor Bob Millar, director of the Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, based in Edinburgh, agreed viable offspring would be possible. He said: "Donkeys can mate with horses and create infertile offspring; maybe that could happen with chimpanzees."

But he said he would oppose any such attempt. "It's unnecessary and ridiculous and no serious scientist would consider such a thing. Ethically, it's not appropriate.

"It's also completely impractical. Chimps would never be a source of organs for humans because of the viruses they carry and the low numbers."

Professor Hugh McLachlan, professor of applied philosophy at Glasgow Caledonian University's School of Law and Applied Sciences, said although the idea was "troublesome", he could see no ethical objections to the creation of humanzees.

"Any species came to be what it is now because of all sorts of interaction in the past," he said.

"If it turns out in the future there was fertilisation between a human animal and a non-human animal, it's an idea that is troublesome, but in terms of what particular ethical principle is breached it's not clear to me.

"I share their squeamishness and unease, but I'm not sure that unease can be expressed in terms of an ethical principle."

A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "It's just not a problem. If you inseminate an animal with human sperm, scientifically nothing happens. The species barriers are too great."

HYBRIDS ARE AT CROSS PURPOSES

EVEN though hybrids of humans and animals have never been created, many other creatures have been crossed successfully.

Lions and tigers have been bred to create ligers, the world's largest cats.

And there are also zorses (zebra and horse), wholphins (whale and dolphin), tigons (tiger and lion), lepjags (leopard and jaguar) and zonkeys (zebra and donkey).

As well as these hybrid mammals, there are also hybrid birds, fish, insects and plants.

Many hybrids, such as mules, are sterile, which prevents the movement of genes from one species to another, keeping both species distinct. However, some can reproduce and there are scientists who believe that grey wolves and coyotes mated thousands of years ago to create a new species, the red wolf.

More commonly, hybrids mate with one of their parent species, which can influence the genetic mix of what gets passed along to subsequent generations.

Hybrids can have desirable traits, often being fitter or larger than either parent.

Most hybrid animals have been bred in captivity, but there are examples of the process occurring in the wild.

This is far more common in plants than animals but in April 2006 a hunter in Canada's North-west Territories shot a polar bear whose fur had an orange tint.

Research showed that it had a grizzly bear father, and it became known as a pizzly.

In 2003, DNA analysis confirmed that five odd-looking felines found in Maine and Minnesota were bobcat-lynx hybrids, dubbed blynxes.

I have heard of transgendered people BUT transspecies people! You know that somewhere out there there is a geniticist trying to pull this off if it has not already been done!


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Tuesday, September 22, 2009





USGIC domestic covert operations do not come from nothing. They have a history, and Lee Hamilton has a history of covering them up. To be brief, and regrettably cryptic through summary: the 1980s were rocked by a series of gargantuan scandals about activities whose underlying purpose was in part the consolidation of power by the factions responsible for 911. These included: 1) October Surprise, the secret deal cut between the Bush-Reagan team to have the Ayatollah hold the Iranian Embassy hostages until after the November 1980 election, to assure a Bush-Reagan victory over Carter, in return for US arms delivered to Iran via Israel. Principals directly involved included George Casey, Donald Gregg, and George H. W. Bush; 2) Inslaw, the theft by the USGIC of William Hamilton’s PROMIS software, and its enormously profitable privatization by Bush41 cronies, to facilitate world-wide economic spying on competitive and allied countries. PROMIS and its successors also serves as the software foundation for the data integration of the growing police state, Poindexter’s TIA, and its privatized versions in Florida using the Matrix software provided by Seisint, a company founded after 911by Hank Asher and since sold to Lexis-Nexis for $750,000,000. Asher also founded DBT (Database Technologies), the company that rigged the 2000 presidential election for Jeb Bush in Florida on behalf of his brother by scrubbing eligible Democratic voters from the voter rolls. Hank Asher by his own admission spent the early 1980s flying cocaine and marijuana to and from South American but dismissed this major felony as due to “a hunger for adventure” and remarked of it “I didn't feel like I had done a crime.” The only persons I know of who do not feel that their participation in international drug running is a crime are CIA sponsored and protected drug-runners. 13 3) The Savings & Loan scandal, a deliberate scheme to de-regulate the thrifts so that the CIA, the Mafia and their friends in high places could buy up such institutions, commit gross fraud free from government regulation, and pass on the nearly trillion dollar costs to the taxpayer. 14 4) Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), a CIA/military controlled bank that channeled S&L lucre as well as laundered drug and arms profits into covert operations throughout the world. 5) Iran-Contra, a keystone in the destruction of the Congress as an autonomous political body. The Secret Government, in which Bush41 played a major direct operational role during Iran-Contra, deliberately and flagrantly ignoring both versions of the Boland Amendment in funding the Contras by setting up secret training sites for the Contras in the United States and in Mexico outside the regular chain of military command. These sites trained privatized armies for covert military and para-military actions that were outside regular command structure but that had access to support and supplies from the US military, i.e., a privatized off-books department of covert operations. Financing was through CIA drug running, and the sale of illegal arms often obtained from military storehouses though such figures as Generals John K. Singlaub and Richard Second. Dick Cheney (ranking House Republican in Iran-Contra) played a key role working directly with Lee Hamilton (who chaired the Iran-Contra panel) to make certain that Bush41 did not have to testify before Congress, and was rewarded accordingly. (The “Iran” part of the scandal was a separate operation that was put into the mix to confuse the public by pretending that a patriotic motive of freeing the Lebanon hostages was involved; it wasn’t.) And, most importantly, recall that just before Bush41 left office, he issued a Christmas Eve blanket pardon to all his Iran-Contra co-conspirators, on the grounds of their “patriotism,” whose upcoming trials threatened to expose Bush’s central role in the operation. 15

Lee Hamilton played key roles in covering up two of these inter-connected scandals, October Surprise and Iran-Contra. Defrauding America provides an excellent account of Hamilton’s role in the October Surprise Committee, which he chaired, links particular players amongst all these scandals, and documents in detail Hamilton’s refusal to allow relevant testimony from whistle-blower CIA operatives, and concluded that October Surprise never occurred. As summarized by FAA whistle-blower Rodney Stich, whose offer to facilitate testimony of eyewitness participants in Iran-Contra was refused despite a long personal letter to Lee Hamilton detailing the evidence:

In July 1992, the Hamilton committee released an interim report stating there was no evidence that Bush was in Paris [to clinch the October Surprise deal] or that there was any support for the October Surprise charges. The Hamilton Committee didn’t obtain testimony of any of the parties willing to testify that would prove the existence of the scheme and Bush’s presence at the Paris meetings. 16

Though short on specifics, Michael Ruppert writes of Hamilton’s role in Iran-Contra:

Iran-Contra was effectively “managed” by Lee Hamilton in the House and John Kerry (among others) in the Senate throughout the late 1980s to conceal the greatest crimes of the era, crimes committed by a litany of well-known government operations. At the time, Hamilton was the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Ruppert quotes famed investigative reporter Sarah McClendon regarding October Surprise:

Congressman Hyde elicited and obtained a promise from Chairman Lee Hamilton, D., Ind. Of the House Task Force on October Surprise, that the group would clear President Bush of going to Paris to cinch a deal of weapons for Iran in exchange for retaining American hostages to be delivered to President Ronald Reagan and not to outgoing President Carter. …Hamilton held a press conference to clear Bush before the investigation into the deal between the Reagan-Bush candidates for presidential office and the Iranians had even started. Hamilton then admitted he had not interrogated witnesses or talked with his special attorney hired to investigate the matter.

Perhaps the best line, though short, is that Hamilton declared himself “satisfied” with the testimony of Lt. Colonel Oliver North in the Iran-Contra hearings. 17






LOOK AT THE CRASH ENTRY POINT PICTURES FROM THE BOEING 757 THAT HIT THE PENTAGON, THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN OF THE B AND C RINGS FROM THE INSIDE BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF THE OUTER RINGS DUE TO THE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. DOES IT LOOK LIKE AN AIRLINER WITH A 124 FOOT WING SPAN AND A 44 FOOT TALL TAIL IMPACTED THE PENTAGON? FURTHER INTRIGUE IS ADDED BY THE ARTICLES BELOW. ASK YOURSELF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TWO 7,294 POUND ENGINES AS THESE WERE NEVER FOUND-DID THEY JUST DISINTEGRATE?
The Navy Command Center was the Target of the Attack

“The US Authorities have tried to make believe that the damage caused to the Pentagon, on September 11, 2001 was caused by the crash of a hijacked Boeing airliner on the building. This lie was meant to hide the fact that a bombing attack was in fact carried out by a group of people who had authorized access to the Pentagon and that the target was not the Departement of Defense in general but the new Navy Command Center.”

Anymonous Why might someone want to target the Naval Command Center (NCC)?

Most people know of the NORAD “all seeing” defensive network, with radar and satellite capabilities. But in their shadow, the NCC also was a very formable command and control facility, with some overlapping capacities. The site of the attack occurred on the first floor at the Naval Command Center portion of the Pentagon. The facility was a powerhouse of information gathering, command and control, and systems for monitoring “all warfare mission areas.”



Starting in 1996 the Navy was implementing an upgrade; The Tactical Command System (TCS) upgrades the Navy’s Command Control, Computer and Intelligence (C3I) systems and processes C3I information for all warfare mission areas including planning, direction and reconstruction of missions for peacetime, wartime and times of crises. Included among these C3I systems are: the unified command centers of CINCPAC and CINCLANT, the Navy Command Center…[i] [Emphasis added]



The only U.S. Navy Command Center survivor, Lieutenant Kevin Shaeffer, claimed: “Had the Command Center not been destroyed it surely would have been able to provide the highest levels of our Navy leadership with updates as to exactly what was occurring.”[ii]

If someone wanted to silence any evidence or witnesses that had privy knowledge of what happened on 9/11 — there were two choices; either they were with the perpetrators and cooperated, or they weren’t and had to be destroyed. This might have made the NCC a prime target if the Navy wasn’t in on the neocon’s Attack on America. However, there is no evidence that the Navy was directly involved.



The Office of Naval Intelligence had its offices in the Naval Command Center.

A theory proposed by Tom Wilson may have deep roots in the Pentagon, and involves Israeli espionage. The Office of Naval Intelligence may have had incriminating evidence on Israeli espionage. When Pollard’s activities were exposed — he was convicted of spying for Israel from 1984 through 1985. The following individuals were suspected by then-Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger’s office of the general counsel of being co-conspirators:

Douglas Feith – worked at the Pentagon from March 1984 to September 1986 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy.

John Lehman – worked at the Pentagon as the Secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987.

Richard Perle – worked at the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1981 to 1987.

Paul Wolfowitz – worked at the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1982 to 1986.



The “spy ring” returns…

Pollard obtained classified material from his workplace in Suitland, Maryland, just a few miles from Washington DC. Furthermore, like Pollard — Perle also has passed secrets to Israel. In 1970, Perle was caught by the FBI passing secrets to the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC.[iii]

When George W. Bush became President, he appointed these conspirators to high-level Pentagon jobs (makes you wonder, who is Bush’s real master).

Feith – was appointed Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

John Lehman – worked on the 9/11 Commission (setup by the Bush Administration).

Perle – was appointed Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.

Wolfowitz – was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense.



Mike Vreeland of Office of Naval Intelligence, stated that:



Certain government officials — politicians, brass, and high ranking military — have 11th Amendment privileges and can’t be sued. Another government agency has to go investigate activities connected to weapons smuggling, organized crime, and drug trafficking. They use their power to break laws, and we’re not allowed to investigate them. Thus certain parts of the U.S. government designed an entity called Unofficial Intelligence Investigation Division (UID). It was designed by Adm. Jeremy Michael Boorda, who allegedly committed suicide. Boorda put this together prior to becoming CNO [Chief of Naval Operations]. He was not a bad guy.25



It appears the Navy was trying to keep “tabs of” illegal spying activities, in an attempt to control it, and some didn’t like that!



Were Navy veterans recruited to participate in an exercise on 9/11?

Each of the following individuals on Flight 77 had been in the Navy:

Charles Burlingame III – pilot, had once worked at the Naval Command Center in the Pentagon.

David Charlebois – Copilot, Navy.

William Caswell – one of the Navy’s top scientists.

Charles Droz III – Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy and Vice President for software development, EM Solutions Inc.

Wilson “Bud” Flagg – retired admiral (Involved in “Tailhook”).

Bryan Jack – worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

[Bryan Jack was involved with economics and budgeting. There was soon to be a massive fraud in the Pentagon, prompting neocon comptroller and Jewish Rabbi Dov Zakheim to quit. Did he know about this? It is possible that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recruited Mr. Jack to participate in this exercise.]

John Sammartino – former worker at Naval Research Lab.

John Yamnicky – consultant and ex-test pilot.

Vicki Yancey – former naval electronics technician.

And while not in the Navy,

Barbara Olson – was a devote right-winger and wife of Ted Olson, who was Jonathan Pollard’s former attorney! It is certainly possible that Ted Olson recruited his third wife to participate in this conspiracy. Did Ted Olson want to destroy the incriminating records of his ‘clients’?



If the perpetrators were going to attack the World Trade Center towers, then they would have to attack the Navy Command Center as well. Since those inside the NCC were following all the events unfolding on 9/11.

Chilling GRU reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that American Forces loyal to President Obama who are currently interrogating members of a CIA-al Qaeda terrorist cell apprehended this weekend [see our previous report Obama Warned By CIA, “Surrender Or Join Kennedy”] have uncovered evidence that a “series” of what are called “dirty bombs” containing radioactive materials may be set to explode all across the United States during the coming week.

According to these reports, upon searching the computers of these CIA-al Qaeda terrorists a “substantial link” was found linking these rogue forces with the Nazi terrorist, James G. Cummings, whose plot to detonate dirty bombs in Washington D.C. during the inauguration of President Obama was thwarted after his assassination by his wife, Amber Cummings, who according to her FSB file is one of a number of US Naval Intelligence “controlled” wives and husbands put into place to monitor what are called the “Children of Hitler” and who are the offspring of one of the most insidious eugenics experiments ever devised by American and German Nazi forces after World War II.

Of this Nazi plot against Obama we can further read as reported by Western news sources:

“James G. Cummings, a neo-Nazi who was shot to death by his wife last December, possessed a cache of radioactive materials suitable for building a “dirty bomb,” according to a leaked FBI intelligence report. A dirty bomb uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive and other harmful materials over a large area.

During a search of the Belfast, Maine, house where Cummings lived with his wife, Amber, investigators reportedly discovered instructions for making a dirty bomb, along with four 1-gallon containers filled with a mix of uranium and thorium, both of which are radioactive, along with highly toxic beryllium powder. The containers also held a hydrogen peroxide-based solution needed for making peroxide-based explosives, along with lithium metal, thermite, magnesium ribbon, black iron oxide and other substances that are used to amplify the effects of homemade explosives.

According to the FBI report, which was originally posted online by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts leaked documents, police also found a National Socialist Movement membership application filled out by Cummings. The NSM currently is the largest neo-Nazi organization in the country, with 69 chapters in 30 states.”

Most important to note about James G. Cummings is that he was financed in his terrorist plot by the trust fund established by his father, James B. Cummings a prominent landowner in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg and reported to have an income of over $10 million a year.

Important to note about James B. Cummings is that the source of his wealth was from his association with his Fort Bragg, California business partner Cornelius Vander Starr [photo 3rd left] whom he served with during World War II in the secretive Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which later became the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was responsible for the Nazification of the United States through their Operation Paperclip which brought to America the German Nazi Regimes most prominent scientists in order for them being able to continue their monstrous experiments.

Cornelius Vander Starr, though not known to the majority of the American people, and his partner, James B. Cummings, founded in 1919 the American Asiatic Underwriters insurance company in Shanghai, China financed by that Asian Nations vast opium trade, but when forced to leave in early 1949 after Mao Zedong led the advance of the Communist People's Liberation Army on Shanghai moved their operations to New York City where they changed their name to the American International Group, Inc. Otherwise known by its infamous title of AIG and whose failure this past year collapsed the entire banking system of the Western World.

Russian FSB/KGB files on AIG state that this financial monolith has long been the “main conduit” of funds to those factions backing the Nazification of the United States who are “virulently” opposed to Obama and through Cornelius Vander Starr’s nephew, Kenneth Starr, besieged the former US President William Clinton with countless investigations that caused Clinton’s wife, and current US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to state in 1998 that her husband was under attack by a “vast right-wing conspiracy” whose origins can be traced to the Business Plot Coup these American Nazi fascists had intended to bring down the government of President Franklin Roosevelt.

For the greatest understanding of the Nazi fascist plots to overthrow Obama one has to fully understand the monstrosity of the Eugenics Movement and its stranglehold over this American right-wing factions that was first advocated by their President Woodrow Wilson and supported by their top capitalist leaders, including Alexander Graham Bell and the maternal grandfather of Cornelius Vander Starr, David Starr Jordan, who is considered one of the “fathers” of the eugenics movement in the US.

The acceleration of these Nazi fascists’ plans for the destruction of the United States that would lead their New World Order based upon American-European hegemony over the entire Earth occurred immediately after World War II with the “blending” of the US-Nazi German experiments to “create” their “master race” of obedient slaves and “unaccountable” assassins such as James G. Cummings, who have for the past 60 years terrorized that Nation with countless assassinations and “suiciding” of all who have dared to oppose them.

These assassins, however, have not gone unopposed as America’s oldest (and which Russian experts say is the most powerful US secret service) the United States Naval Intelligence Service, has long battled these Nazi fascist monsters and have succeeded in destroying the 3 US President’s (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford) they blamed for the murder of “their” President, John F. Kennedy they had placed in power to destroy the CIA.

In the destruction of Johnson, the US Naval Intelligence Service created what Soviet KGB files say was a “counter-revolutionary” force consisting of various anti-war groups that forced Johnson out of office due to massive protests against his leadership and which included the Weather Underground whose main founder, William “Bill” Ayers, still heads this “network” which was instrumental in placing Obama in office. [Note: Especially enraging the US Naval Intelligence Service against Johnson, aside from his complicity in the assassination of Kennedy, was his, Johnson’s “approving” the destruction of the USS Liberty during the 1967 Israeli War.]

In the destruction of Nixon, who the US Navy also blamed for the assassination of Kennedy, the US Naval Intelligence Service utilized one of their top agents, Robert “Bob” Woodward, who they “reassigned” from his US Naval posting aboard the U.S.S. Wright (called the “Floating Pentagon”) to the Washington Post Newspaper where his reports on the Watergate Incident led to Nixon being the first American President to resign from office.

In the destruction of Ford, blamed by the US Navy for the cover-up of Kennedy’s assassination by his being a member of the white-wash Warren Commission, the US Naval Intelligence Service attempted through their “counter-revolutionary” force to have him assassinated, but in failing in those attempts overthrew him by placing President Carter, and former US Naval Intelligence Officer, in power. [Note: Prior to his death, Ford admitted that the Warren Commission report was “fictionalized”.]

To the current warfare ongoing between these factions in the United States it is important to note that prior to the Nazi fascist Bush regime launching their crackdown against the US Naval Intelligence Service they destroyed their main communication center and vast computer files with a cruise missile attack upon their offices in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, but which Russian Intelligence Analysts say they have “reconstituted” as evidenced by their being able to place yet another of their “operatives” in the US Presidency.

Sources:
http://911exposed.org/NCC.htm
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/photos/punchout.html
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1279.htm

Friday, September 18, 2009





A former top federal drug agent in Miami pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he ordered the shredding of thousands of documents belonging to billionaire banker Allen Stanford.

U.S. District Judge William Zloch scheduled a trial after January for Tom Raffanello, the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office who later became the security chief for Stanford's banking empire.

Raffanello, 61, was indicted last week on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice for ordering the destruction of thousands of pages of company records -- in violation of a judge's order -- after regulators shut down Stanford's banking network in February.

Raffanello has denied wrongdoing and said the records -- which consist of sensitive background checks on employees and internal security responses -- were merely duplicates of existing computer records.

``He spent 30 years of his life fighting crime, and this case is a slap in the face of everything he ever stood for,'' said attorney Richard Sharpstein, who is representing Raffanello with defense lawyer Kendall Coffey.

The defense lawyers also complained to the judge that prosecutors are forcing them to sift through some four million computer records to find the information directly related to the case against Raffanello. But prosecutors said the data is easy to search.

``It's in no way an ambush or a data dump,'' said Matthew Klecka, a U.S. Justice Deparment attorney.

In addition to the records, The defense team is fighting to get access to a computer server seized when government agents raided the Stanford security office near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Prosecutors said the data, which belongs to the court receiver for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will be turned over to the defense team.

Stanford, 59, who is in jail in Houston, was appointed a public defender earlier this week by the judge overseeing his criminal case.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1239957.html Former U.S. anti-drug official's arrest 'a complete shock' - latimes.com

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MEXICO UNDER SIEGE

Former U.S. anti-drug official's arrest 'a complete shock'

Federal investigators say he served as a secret ally of traffickers while he was posted in Guadalajara.

By Sebastian Rotella

September 17, 2009

Reporting from Washington

As a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, Richard Padilla Cramer held front-line posts in the war on Mexico's murderous cartels. He led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and was the attache for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara.

While in Mexico, however, Cramer also served as a secret ally of drug lords, according to federal investigators.

Cramer allegedly advised traffickers on law enforcement tactics and pulled secret files to help them identify turncoats. He charged $2,000 for a Drug Enforcement Administration document that was sent to a suspect in Miami by e-mail in August, authorities said.

"Cramer was responsible for advising the [drug traffickers] how U.S. law enforcement works with warrants and record checks as well as how DEA conducts investigations to include 'flipping subjects,' " or recruiting informants, a criminal complaint says.

DEA agents arrested him at his Arizona home Sept. 4. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in Miami said Wednesday that she could not comment but said that cases begun with complaints usually go before grand juries. A decision on an indictment in Miami is expected soon, according to a federal official who requested anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

Cramer's duties as the ICE attache in Guadalajara included serving as a liaison with Mexican police. But the investigation revealed that he worked for "a very high-level drug lord," the federal official said. In a dark twist on the trend of former federal officials going into private consulting, the 26-year government veteran became a full-time advisor to traffickers after retiring from ICE in January 2007, the complaint says.

A trafficker "convinced Cramer to retire . . . and begin working directly for [him] in drug trafficking and money laundering," the complaint said. Cramer continued to sell secret documents that he obtained from active U.S. agents, an aspect of the case still under investigation, the official said.

The charges underscore the corruptive might of the cartels, which have bought off Mexican politicians, police chiefs and military commandos. Drug lords have corrupted U.S. border inspectors and agents to help smuggle cocaine north. In 2006, the FBI chief in El Paso was convicted of charges related to concealing his friendship with an alleged kingpin.

Cramer, 56, stands out because his rank and foreign post made his work especially sensitive, officials said. Colleagues described him as a well-regarded investigator who spoke Spanish and operated skillfully in the array of U.S. and Mexican agencies at the border when he ran the ICE office in Nogales, Ariz., his hometown.

"It came as a complete shock," Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said in a telephone interview. "I have been in law enforcement at the border 42 years and I have seen some strange things, but I have never ceased to be surprised."

Estrada worked with Cramer at the Nogales police in 1979, and encountered him periodically as Cramer rose through the federal ranks.

About five months ago, Cramer showed up at the sheriff's office, Estrada said. The retired agent had returned from Mexico to his house in Sahuarita, about 15 miles south of Tucson. He applied for a job as a county detention officer, which pays about $30,000 a year, Estrada said. In contrast, Cramer's federal rank probably commanded a salary of between $130,000 and $150,000, plus benefits, officials say.

Estrada told him that working as a guard would be "quite a drop," the sheriff recalled.

"He said he wanted to keep being active, go back to his roots, keep busy," Estrada said. "So we put him through all the ropes: polygraph, background checks. We didn't find anything suspicious."

While Cramer trained at a state law enforcement academy, a two-year DEA investigation of a Mexican drug ring active in Miami accelerated.

Working with four informants, agents had run across evidence implicating Cramer in corruption, the complaint said. In 2007, an informant revealed documents -- four from the DEA database, one from ICE, two from the state of California -- supplied by an American in Mexico named "Richard," according to the complaint.

Agents identified the American as Cramer and learned that he was known to request database checks from DEA agents in Guadalajara, the complaint said. Such requests often are granted as a courtesy among agencies, officials said. ICE had six offices in Mexico at the time; the Guadalajara outpost has closed.

Agents learned that Cramer allegedly invested $40,000 in a scheme by Mexican traffickers to smuggle 660 pounds of cocaine by sea from Panama via U.S. ports to Spain. Agents tracked the shipment and Spanish police seized it in the city of Vigo in June 2007, setting off a dispute among the traffickers over who was to blame.

Cramer allegedly helped the Mexican drug lord conduct an internal hunt for henchmen responsible for the bust. Suspects under surveillance in Miami declared that Cramer would check databases to help unmask informants, whose families would be kidnapped in retaliation, the complaint said. A suspect told agents Cramer had quarreled with the drug lord over the $40,000 debt, the complaint said.

Early this month, DEA agents traveled to Arizona and told Estrada that they planned to arrest his new jail guard. "It was the last person I would have imagined," he said.

Authorities have not revealed many details.

"I think something went terribly wrong in Mexico," Estrada said. "I'm curious to know what flipped him to the other side."

sebastian.rotella@latimes.com


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Thursday, September 17, 2009




Forever Autumn is a song by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass. The original melody was written by Jeff Wayne in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Vigrass and Osborne, the performers of the original jingle, added lyrics to the song and recorded it for inclusion on their 1972 album Queues. Their interpretation was also released as a single and gained moderate commercial success in Japan, selling more than 100,000 copies and becoming a top-20 hit on the country's record chart.
The best-known version is the recording by Justin Hayward from the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Wayne wanted to include a love song on the album that sounded like Forever Autumn, and he decided that the best course of action was to simply use the original song. Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues was hand-picked by Jeff Wayne to sing it, and it was recorded at London's Advision Studios in 1976. The song reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1978.

 

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